19 Jun 08 Behind Google's Chrome Intentions and Outcome…

We all want to know what Google is thinking and what their goal is with this Chrome browser.  Personally, I thought Google did a great thing by making it open source.  For god sakes, you can now basically create your own browser based on the Chromium and maybe even add your family album as Google gadgets plugin.  (or whatever)

The same thing can be said of Firefox, of which some companies have took advantage and even made a Web Browser-based SQL database browser called Kirix Strata. (It’s built on the Gecko, the open source engine behind Firefox.  You can find details here.)

By open-sourcing it, Google’s already ahead of the competitions like Microsoft while Mozilla is also open source and has been proving itself in the open-source world for years.

I think in 2-3 years, Google can easily blow the market away from everybody not because Chrome browser is awesome right now, but because it will be 5-10 times more awesome by then.  Knowing the number of people who work on the Google search engine as a mass collaboration of engineers to build a highly scalable search engine system, I think this Browser market is already in their hands as they have proved once before with GoogleMaps overtaking YahooMaps with its itsy bitsy pixel mapping technology . (although Yahoo now has the same technology, their maps are almost identical to Google except StreetView and some other features, which make GoogleMaps better.

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12 Jun 08 Firefox 3.1 and IE8 adding Google Chrome's Incognito Stealth Mode!

Google Chrome might lack in terms of experience in comparison to Mozilla Firefox 3.1 and Microsoft’s IE8 but it turns out Firefox and IE will be implementing Chrome’s incognito stealth mode.

The incognito steath mode in Google Chrome browser (Ctrl+Shift+N in Google Chrome opens a new “incognito window”) allows users to surf the web anonymously, the browser skipping caching, saving passwords, and other important information that might possibly harm the user.  (Of course, for you porno freaks, this is a perfect way to “hide” your traces.)

It’s a simply concept but Google’s Chrome browser has included as a standard option.  It’s not surprising that Firefox 3.1 and IE8 will have the same feature as it’s not too complicated to implement other than “not storing any of users’ data”.

September 11, 2008 (Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. will respond to rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. with a private-browsing mode in Firefox, according to notes posted on its Web site, and is on track to deliver one in 3.1, the version that will likely go beta next month.

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